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Rock
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – “Never Be You”
Recommended If You Like: John Mellancamp, Bob Dylan, Roseanne Cash
Released last month, “Never Be You” was originally left on the cutting room floor of the sessions for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ 1982 album Long After Dark, before finding new life as a country-chart standout for Roseanne Cash. Penned by Heartbreaker Benmont Tench, the band’s version seemingly would’ve fit in nicely next to the album’s gothic single, “You Got Lucky.” No matter, it’s here now and worth a listen.
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Singer-Songwriter/Avant Folk
Laura Marling – “Caroline”
Recommended If You Like: Leonard Cohen, Nico, Aldous Harding
Written, recorded and produced by Laura Marling in her home studio, the singer-songwriter’s new album, Patterns In Repeat, is a quiet-yet-lush, meditative collection of deeply moving songs, many of which are addressed to Marling’s newborn daughter. Evocative strings accompany the majority to the otherwise sparse tracks, including “Caroline,” a captivating reflection on motherhood and mortality.
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Indie Rock/Folk
Horsegirl – “2468”
Recommended If You Like: Beat Happening, Kleenex, Wire
After earning accolades from a wide swath of major music publications for their debut full length, the genre-averse trio Horsegirl has shared a freak-folk-y new single, “2468.” Produced by Welsh avant-pop icon Cate Le Bon, the song is a jangly, sardonic number with repetitive lyrics and many “da da da”’s delivered via an undeniably charming melody.
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Local/Indie Folk
Sun Child – “Waves”
Recommended If You Like: The Lumineers, The Weather Station, Of Monsters and Men
The title-track from, and third preview of, Jax-beaches-based indie-folk artist Brooke Garwood’s forthcoming new album as Sun Child expands on the collaborative spirit of the neo-folk ensemble first introduced on October’s “Floating.” Like the previously released singles, “Waves” explores the process of self discovery, incorporating the ambience of healing sound bowls to tighten the track’s meditative, inward-looking focus.
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R&B/Pop
Baby Rose – “Landslide”
Recommended If You Like: Fleetwood Mac, Mavis Staples, Sharon Jones
After the release of her collaborative EP with Canadian production duo Badbadnotgood, earning a KCRW “Breakthrough Artist of the Year” nod and earning praise from the New York Times for her “strikingly deep, tearful voice,” Atlanta-based singer Baby Rose has shared a cover of “Landslide,” the Stevie Nicks’ penned standout from Fleetwood Mac’s 1975 self-titled album (the debut of the Buckingham-Nicks version of the band). In Rose’s hands, the song is more spare and perhaps more contemplative. Similarly moving, no doubt.
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Jazz/Hip Hop/Ambient
Shabaka – “Timepieces” feat. billy woods
Recommended If You Like: Pharoah Sanders, Kamasi Washington, André 3000
Shabaka, one of the more adventurous voices in jazz, has teamed with one of the more adventurous voices in hip hop, billy woods, on the first single from the former’s forthcoming Possession EP. On “Timepieces” the renowned saxophonist-turned-flute-minimilist lays down an ambient, experimental soundscape for one-half of the popular hip-hop team Armand Hammer to deploy distinctive bars from on his arsenal of cadences.
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Soul
Al Green – “Everybody Hurts”
Recommended If You Like: R.E.M., Bobby Womack, Otis Redding
R.E.M. drummer Bill Barry came up with the original, R&B-leaning instrumentation for “Everybody Hurts,” one of several hits on the band’s world-beating 1992 album, Automatic for the People. Though it’s arguably Michael Stipes’ best vocal performance, in the hands of soul-legend Al Green, Stipe’s melodramatic arena shaker becomes something more interpersonal. Less cathartic, maybe. But similarly therapeutic.
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Local/Indie Rock/Shoegaze
Bonnethead – “Dive”
Recommended If You Like: Alvvays, DIIV, The Japanese House
Leave it to bands from our own waterborne region to coin new oceanic genres. Case-in-point, Jacksonville indie trio Bonnethead calls the shoegaze-y heard across their first couple of releases: “shark rock.” Made up of singer-songwriter Nick Garcia (Lost Club, Dog Apollo, Weekend Atlas), guitarist Alex Henriquez and bassist Bert McCaskey, the band recently shared, “Dive.” Read the review here.
Dec. 04, 2024
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Dec. 03, 2024
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Nov. 27, 2024
Campaign of Comprehensive Reissues Highlight the Grace and Grit of Early ‘70s John Cale
Nov. 19, 2024
New Flying Lotus, Yussef Dayes & Tom Misch, Plus Black Violin and Local Music from Dylan & Batsauce on The Neighborhood
Nov. 19, 2024
Jacksonville-Based Bonnethead Deliver Shoegaze Goodness on “Dive”
Nov. 19, 2024
‘High and Rising: A Book About De La Soul’ is a Comprehensive Accounting of the Hip-Hop Group’s Influence on Music and the Book’s Author
Nov. 14, 2024
New Music from Tinsley Ellis, Keb’ Mo’ & Heavy Doses of John Mayall, Stevie Ray Vaughan from Blues Horizon
Nov. 09, 2024
The Foreign Exchange, Stro Elliot, Tall Black Guy, Lupe Fiasco and More New Music from the Neighborhood
Nov. 06, 2024
The Loving Arms Race Roll Away the Stone with their Rollicking Debut Release
Nov. 05, 2024
Sunny War Returns to Jacksonville to Play Intuition in November
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